https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway#Algorithmics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule "...for example, the last day of February, April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), and December 12 (12/12) all occur on the same day of the week in the year."
https://www.onthisday.com/date/1968/april/4 , https://www.onthisday.com/date/1973/april/4
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/april-14 1865 , https://www.onthisday.com/date/1912/april/14
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem
https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/books/edgar-allan-poes-eerie-richard-parker-coincidence
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190904-edgar-allan-poes-story-of-cannibalism-that-came-true
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27480/did-edgar-allan-poe-predict-a-shipwreck
Years before the Titanic sank, two mysterious books were published that seemed to predict the disaster https://www.businessinsider.com/titanics-books-predicted-disaster-2018-4
https://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk/w-t-stead-the-pall-mall-gazette/how-the-mail-steamer-went-down/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/785360.Futility_or_the_Wreck_of_the_Titan
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2012/spring/titanic.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine 1726
https://simonpetherick.com/2017/12/07/jonathan-swifts-word-machine
https://computerhistory.org/blog/gullivers-engine
https://jimmiekepler.com/2015/02/27/5281
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics vs. Free_will
https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/in-the-beginning-was-the-code
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-computational-universe
https://cmsw.mit.edu/angles/2015/is-the-universe-actually-a-giant-quantum-computer
Three decades before the 1st MATRIX movie and the 13th Floor, the Moody Blues had a song about the nature of reality and the world control $Y$TEM. A time not that long after when the Jefferson_Airplane was playing at a place called The_Matrix_(club).